Comments Posted By Frederick Davies
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WILL NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE KILL CONSERVATISM?
As someone living in the UK (and suffering under the NHS), I am afraid that you are wrong; that GOP strategist is right in that if people get used to government running their healthcare, the possibility of small-government Conservatism ever doing anything worth voting for is over. Other forms of Conservatism may survive and thrive under nationalized healthcare, but any attempts to reduce the size of government will be over. It is not a question of determinism or voter self-interest, it is just that the Left will always have the possibility of accusing anyone trying to reduce the size of government of trying to cut public services (like they do here in the UK), and that is a fear tactic that works. Even Margaret Thatcher only temporarily managed to stop the growth of government here in the UK, and it took a complete economic catastrophe like the 1970's for it to happen; reducing it was even beyond her.
Comment Posted By Frederick Davies On 23.11.2008 @ 06:52
